Co-Op/Intern Developer, Devops

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.
Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.
We make the world better, and you can too.
Co-Op/Intern Developer, DevOps
Job location: our office in Ottawa, Canada or Remote, Canada
Term length: 4, 8 or 12 months starting September 2023
About The Team
As a member of the Development Operations team, you will focus your skills on designing, implementing, documenting, and supporting continuous integration tools and scripts for our RapidResponse product. This role will have a focus on programming to ensure that DevOps methodologies and technologies are tailored for Kinaxis’ business rules and ways of working.
What you will do

• Check a Jenkins dashboard to see how builds are running
• Review your ideas with your teammates
• Write elegant test-driven code for a new feature
• Join a stand-up and catch-up with your whole team on the sprint progress
• Shake it up by playing some online games with your team or other Kinaxis employees
• Learn about something new at a learn-and-lunch session
• May perform additional projects upon request
• You will help to transform our company software build and deployment processes, get your hands on distributed systems, work with cluster of servers in private and public cloud services such as Azure, and utilize the cloud compute power
• Design, code, and support Kinaxis build and deployment infrastructure (Jenkins, Groovy, PowerShell, C#, Java, Ansible, Docker)
• Sync up remotely with your team via Teams

What we are looking for

• Experience in major programming and scripting languages
• Education in software development
• Strong analytical, teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Adaptable and flexible to changing priorities

Things that Would Definitely Help

• Please note, the interview for this position will contain a small coding exercise
• Experience with container tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI tools, such as Jenkins
• Experience with artifact management tools, such as Artifactory
• Experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible

What we have to offer

• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .
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